: The packet is the fundamental unit of transportation in modern communication networks such as the Internet. Physical layer scheduling decisions are made at the level of packets, ...
Online aggregation is a promising solution to achieving fast early responses for interactive ad-hoc queries that compute aggregates on a large amount of data. Essential to the suc...
Because of their tremendous computing power and remarkable cost efficiency, GPUs (graphic processing unit) have quickly emerged as an influential computing platform for a broad ...
Eddy Z. Zhang, Yunlian Jiang, Ziyu Guo, Xipeng She...
Answering queries using views is a well-established technique in databases. In this context, two outstanding problems can be formulated. The first one consists in deciding whethe...
We consider a near future scenario in which users of a Web 2.0 application, such as a social network, contribute to the application not only data, but also rules which automatical...